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Tons of water on the reactor. the head of the international atomic energy agency in switzerland warns the crisis remains very serious, but pressure in reactor number 3 is down. that bit of encouragement echoed by an official at the nuclear regulatory commission who told the "new york times" that the situation in the plant appears to be "on the verge of stabilizing." also today, rescuers continue to dig through the rubble in search of survivors and bodies from the march 11th quake and tsunami. officials now say the disaster killed 8,805 people and more than 12,000 still remain missing. in...

After command and control facility, it did have some command and control capabilities, but also to rattle gadhafi, to rattle his sons, and, more importantly, though, to rattle the senior military leadership around gadhafi to try to wean them away, to convince them it's over, throw down your guns, move away, save yourselves. because the u.s., the british, the french, the other coalition partners are coming. and that's one of the clear objectives in all of this, to scare these senior iraqi military officers, some of the other tribal leaders who have supported gadhafi and convinced them that the ...

Europeans, members of the arab league, who will then be participating in establishing a no-fly zone there. so there's going to be a transition taking place in which we are one of the partners among many who are going to ensure that that no-fly zone is in force and that the humanitarian protection that needs to be provided continues to be in place. with respect to initiating this action while i was abroad, keep in mind that we are working on very short time frames and we had done all the work and it was just a matter of seeing how gadhafi would react to the warning that i issued on friday. he, ...

Take the lead, though that is still being decide. and libyan fighters are still on the move. word from misrata east of tripoli, gadhafi's tanks unleashed absolute destruction and carnage. a witness says they are shooting people in the main street. an exclusive cnn poll finds broad american support for the allied mission. more than 80% say protecting libyans from their longtime dictator should be a somewhat or very important goal of the u.s. but 70% do not favor sending in any ground troops. i want to turn now to cnn's arwa damon in the eastern libyan city of benghazi. she joins us live on te...

President has said that gadhafi must step down, he must go, after the air attacks and after the attacks on the ground troops there, even, what will happen if gadhafi is still in power at the end of all of this? how will this be viewed? >> it will be seen as a huge setback, not only for the opposition, for the rebels first and foremost, but it will be seen as a setback for the u.s., for britain and france. remember, the obama administration, they were much more reluctant warriors than the french were, president sarkozy, the british, the prime minister, david cameron. they were taking the lead i...